Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is facing heavy criticism after calling for an escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
Graham, one of the leading advocates for the war, has urged President Donald Trump to seize Kharg Island, which handles 90% of Iran’s oil exports.
During an interview with Fox News host Shannon Bream, she referenced a new article in The Atlantic, which warned that taking the island ― and holding it ― would likely come at great cost, and any American troops on the island would be subject to “ballistic-missile strikes, drone attacks, and petrochemical smoke, all without a reliable means of obtaining logistical support.”
Graham wouldn’t hear it.
“I’m sorta tired of all this armchair quarterbacking,” he said, adding that he trusts the Marines over the author of that article.
“We did Iwo Jima,” he said. “We can do this. The Marines. My money’s always on the Marines.”
Iwo Jima was a brutal conflict in the final year of World War II that left nearly 7,000 U.S. Marines dead and 20,000 wounded over 36 days. The National World War II Museum described it as “one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history.”
Graham’s critics were horrified by the comparison: